Mentor-related responsibility/oversight

Give all Mentors access to the incubator SVN repository.
(to be done by the Incubator PMC chair or an Incubator PMC
Member wih karma for the authorizations file)

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Tell Mentors to track progress in the file
'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date

item

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Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF
been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the
package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.

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Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

date

item

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Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution
that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine
with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.

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Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project
is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache,
BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially
the same terms.

Establish a list of active committers

date

item

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Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors
agreement.

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Add all active committers in the relevant section above.

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Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts in
LDAP.

Project specific

Add project specific tasks here.

Incubation

These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.

These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they
may change during incubation.They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and
completed in the request for incubation signoff.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and
acknowledged as committers on the project?

Are there three or more independent committers? (The legal definition
of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there
is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared
employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as
individuals, directly or indirectly.)

Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?

Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of
the committers?

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and
acknowleged by all committers?

Project Specific

Add project specific tasks here.

Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?

If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of
the above tasks?